Traverseais a
peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to the publication of research in
transatlantic history. Transatlantic history pertains to the interconnectedness
of human experience and cross-cultural encounters of Europe, Africa, and the
Americas (North and South) from 1500 to the present. Transatlantic history is
inherently interdisciplinary, transnational, and comparative in approach and
moves beyond the boundaries imposed by the concept of the nation state. The
editors invite submissions that are historical, geographical, anthropological,
literary, sociological, and cartographic in nature. Traversea
is operated by doctoral students as a joint project between the Transatlantic
History Student Organization and the doctoral program in transatlantic history
at the University of Texas at Arlington.

The purpose of UTA’s Phi Alpha Theta chapter is to
promote the study of history through the encouragement of research, good
teaching, publication, and the exchange of learning and ideas among
historians.THSO often
co-hosts many events with Phi Alpha Theta.

UTA’s Center for Greater Southwestern Studies and the
History of Cartography fosters interdisciplinary study of the Southwest and
publicizes the University's Special Collections pertaining to the region and
its cartographic history.

On the sixth floor of UTA’s Central Library, Special
Collections specializes in historical materials relating to Texas, the
Mexican-American War (1846-1848), the cartographic history of Texas and the
Gulf of Mexico, and Mexico from 1810-1920.The collections include more than 30,000 volumes, 7,000 linear feet of
manuscript and archival collections, 5,000 historical maps, 3,600,000
photographic prints and negatives, and thousands of items in other formats.

UTA hosts a project called Cartographic Connections: Improving Teaching through the Use of
Historic Maps, which is a three-year, interactive electronic pilot
project.Its goal is to connect
secondary school students and teachers to a primary source—historic maps of
Texas, the Southwest and beyond, dating from the 1500s through the 1900s.Through the use of maps, students gain a
better understanding of history and the sources that reveal it.

Renowned historian Walter Prescott Webb (1888-1963)
was intimately associated with the University of Texas, he repeatedly asserted
that this institution had a bright future, urged his and other graduate
students to join its faculty, and followed its growth in size and stature with
the special interest of a man seeing his prophecies fulfilled.For decades now, UTA’s Department of History
has respectfully dedicates a lecture series to his memory.

The Texas Map Society was organized in 1996 to foster
the study, understanding, and collecting of historical maps and the history of
cartography.Membership only requires an
interest in maps of any nature and any focus.Members support the activities of the society and participate in special
events and programs.The Texas Map
Society is one of only a few such societies in the United States and the only
one in Texas.

The Society for the History of Discoveries was formed
to stimulate interest in teaching, research, and publishing the history of
geographical exploration. Founded in 1960, the Society includes members from
several academic disciplines as well as archivists, non-affiliated scholars,
and laypersons with an interest in history.The scope of the Society's activities encompasses the discovery,
exploration, and mapping of the earth's land and sea surface from earliest
times to the present—the explorers and the explored.The Society’s publications includes Terrae Incognitae, a journal
of research papers and book reviews published annually since 1969, and five
volumes in the series Studies in the
History of Discoveries published jointly with the Newberry Library.